This is a collection of messages of hope and love. These are stories that will inspire positive feelings and remind you to cherish the beautiful moments of your life, stories that help connect you to those you love or to your faith. There are stories that will remind...

Try lives with his mother, sister, and two brothers in a small house in a village by the sea. Try’s father vanished at sea several years prior, but Try is not lonely because he has two good friends: Tallest, a large oak tree in the woods, and Hope, a star who watches...

Vera St. John’s life has always been at least partially defined by the looming shadow of her mother, Mary. A troubled woman with an infamous past, Vera loved and feared her mother in equal parts. After she is removed from her mother’s care, Vera focuses on trying to...

Catherine is a bit of a recluse – a voluntary shut-in who spends her days painting portraits. She is forced to leave her comfort zone when she gets word that her sister, Sister Mary Gretchen, has died, and the Mother Superior won’t tell her more until she arrives at...

It can’t be said that Shirley Rose Webb has had an uneventful life. She was born in Costa Rica, her parents sought work in the U.S. when she was six, she and her six siblings lived on her grandmother’s farm, she watched cows give birth, got a bone infection in her leg...